2023-24 Mary Anna King Whitehead
Professional Staff Excellence Awards
The Southern Arkansas University Professional Staff Excellence Awards are intended to recognize the non-teaching professional staff members who have achieved an outstanding level of professionalism in the performance of their assignment. Each nominee must be a full-time professional staff member who is at least in the second year of full-time employment at SAU-Magnolia (employed before January 1, 2023). If you wish to nominate a professional staff member for the award, please submit a signed letter or a nomination form in which you emphasize how the person you are nominating has demonstrated the following traits as well as other traits you may wish to describe:
- constantly examines administrative effectiveness and seeks better procedures;
- effectively uses all channels of open communications to achieve mutual understanding;
- originates and develops conceptual ideas with constructive and practical applications;
- encourages and supports inventive and resourceful decision-making at the level closest to the problem;
- encourages individual growth and development of staff;
- effectively formulates strategies, tactics, and action plans to achieve results;
- promotes harmony and teamwork, and displays a high degree of honesty, loyalty, and integrity;
- effectively applies sound management principles and contemporary management concepts;
- is recognized as an effective staff member by students and colleagues.
The names of the professional staff members eligible for this award appear at the bottom of this announcement. Each award carries with it a prize of $500. Previous award winners are not eligible for consideration for five years. All nominations must be received by Tuesday, March 26, 2024.
